I had not given any thought to making "clean out" or test rods for the jets. I have been spraying carb cleaner on old-fashioned pipe cleaners (the type with nylon bristles) to swab out the jets. I like the idea of clean out rods for the jets and ScotchBrite for the needles. I'll have to look through my collection of drill rod to see what diameters I have available... or maybe turn a short rod out of something softer like 6061 aluminum so I cannot scratch the jets.
Thanks for the idea Glen.
Doug L.
Not to hijack Dougs thread, here's another one.
Just finishing up a multi-year major TR-3 street car build, fresh everything including the fuel system.
About 4 months ago I put "high-test" ethanol-based fuel in it, 3 or 4 gallons so I could run it, tune, retorque, etc before I road tested it.
All was fine, it sat for the last month while I finished up detail work on the body and trimming.
This past Friday was going to be the roll-out and 1st test hop day, finally.
Well... it wanted a lot of choke to start and ran lean during warm-up & normal temp, and very poor throttle response, typical of a lean run.
Sure enough, the needles had a build-up already, and I couldn't get a .100 test rod in either jet.
Cleaned the jets & needles, back to running great again.
Glen
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